Winter Birds* 



To know birds, to love birds, to know how to have birds love you is a great 

 trio of educational achievements. 



Scholarship is knowing about nature and human nature, education is know- 

 ing nature and human nature. 



Scholarship is crystallized knowledge, education is knowledge in action. 



The easiest and most beautiful way to know nature in action is through birds. 

 The easiest way to know birds most completely is to know them in winter. 



In spring, summer and autumn birds have no need of you and they care little 

 for you except as a by-product of experience. 



All nature is catering to the birds and they crave bird comradeship from 

 early spring to late autumn. 



But in winter nature often plays them false. Then they are liable to be 

 absolutely dependent upon human nature. 



Anybody can love birds in their song days and nesting time. Then the 

 whole bird world is on dress parade, but in winter all is changed. The birds 

 in winter are like a bride in kitchen attire, while in summer they have a party 

 dress and have party manners. 



Frank M. Chapman is one of the birds' best friends, or rather he helps all 

 people, children especially, to befriend birds. 



The coldest, wildest days in winter are the coziest days in the home. When 

 it is possible or undesirable to brave the rigors of a northern winter, we love home 

 and indoor life most, but those are the days that spell terror for birds. 



If the winter birds could talk a human language they would give Frank M. 

 Chapman a nobler and more glorious reception than America will give Foch 

 when he comes to us, for he has done more to make the winter world safe 

 for birds in civilized communities than Foch has done toward making the world 

 safe for democracy. 



In our "Winter Birds'' Mr. Chapman has done more for us and for the birds 

 in proportion to the price of the book than he has done elsewhere. I lis chapters 

 are on home birds, field birds and forest birds, and in vivid and brilliant descrip- 

 tion and through illustration he makes it delightful to think about winter birds, to 

 know them, to serve them, to have them appreciate the human side of us. 



*"Our Winter Birds: How to Know and How to Attract Them." By Frank AI. 

 Chapman. 



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